The London Authorities (Meetings, etc.) Order 1964

• Citation: S.I. 1964/529
• Sections: 8

Section 1

This order may be cited as the London Authorities (Meetings, etc. ) Order 1964, and shall come into operation on 9th April 1964.

Section 2

The Interpretation Act 1889 applies to the interpretation of this order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

Section 3

(1) The annual meeting of the Greater London Council for 1964 shall be held at the County Hall, S.E.1, at noon on Monday 27th April 1964. In lieu of the requirement contained in paragraph 2(3)(a) of Part I of Schedule 3 to the Local Government Act 1933, as applied to the Council by paragraph 10 of Schedule 2 to the London Government Act 1963, notice of the time and place of the meeting shall be published at the County Hall, S.E.1, and at the Middlesex Guildhall, S.W.1.

(2) Until the completion of the election of a chairman at the said annual meeting such persons as the Minister of Housing and Local Government shall designate shall exercise any functions falling to be exercised by the chairman and vice-chairman of the Greater London Council, and until the close of such annual meeting the clerk of the London County Council, or if he is unable to act the clerk of the county council of Middlesex, shall exercise any functions falling to be exercised by the clerk to the Greater London Council:

Provided that no person shall vote in the first instance at the election of the chairman unless he is a councillor of the Greater London Council.

Section 4

The Schedule to the Charter granted by Her Majesty incorporating the inhabitants of the London Borough of Bexley shall have effect as if the number of Councillors specified in respect of the Falconwood, Upton, St. Mary's and Lamorbey East wards in column (2) of the said Schedule had been Two, Two, Four and Three respectively.

Section 5

In lieu of the requirement contained in paragraph 2(3)(a) of Part II of Schedule 3 to the Local Government Act 1933 notice of the time and place of the first meeting of a London borough council shall be published at the building at which the meeting is to be held.

Section 6

(1) A London borough council shall at their first meeting elect a chairman from among the councillors of the borough or persons qualified to be councillors of the borough.

(2) The election of the chairman shall be the first business transacted at the first meeting of the council. No person shall vote in the first instance unless he is a councillor of the borough, but the person presiding at the election shall, in the event of an equality of votes, give a casting vote whether or not he voted, or was entitled to vote, in the first instance.

(3) If the person elected as chairman is absent from the first meeting such councillor as the councillors present shall choose shall thereafter preside.

(4) The chairman shall, unless he resigns or becomes disqualified, hold office until the first mayor of the borough becomes entitled to act as mayor.

(5) The council may pay to the chairman such remuneration as they think reasonable.

(6) The chairman may appoint an alderman or councillor of the borough to be deputy chairman. The deputy chairman shall, unless he resigns or becomes disqualified, hold office until the first mayor of the borough becomes entitled to act as mayor.

(7) The appointment of a deputy chairman shall be signified to the council in writing and be recorded in the minutes of the council.

(8) The deputy chairman may, if for any reason the chairman is unable to act, or the office of chairman is vacant, discharge all functions which the chairman as such might discharge, except that he shall not take the chair at a meeting of the council unless specially appointed by the meeting to do so.

(9) Subject to the other provisions of this article, until the first mayor of the borough becomes entitled to act as mayor any reference in any enactment, other than section 18(5) of the Local Government Act 1933, in any instrument made under any enactment or in any standing orders to a mayor or deputy mayor shall include a reference to the chairman or the deputy chairman, as the case may be, of a London borough council.

(10) In relation to the chairman and deputy chairman, any provision as to sections 18 and 20 of the Local Government Act 1933 made by an Act of Parliament passed after the London Government Act 1963 shall be disregarded.

Section 7

The meeting of the council of a London borough at which the first mayor of the borough is elected shall be the annual meeting of the council for 1965 and paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 6 to the Representation of the People Act 1948 (which has effect in relation to the council of a London borough by virtue of paragraph 21 of Schedule 3 to the London Government Act 1963) shall not apply in 1965.

Section 8

(1) Each inner London borough council within the meaning of the London Government Act 1963 shall appoint their first representative on the special committee of the Greater London Council provided for by section 30(1) of the said Act at their first meeting.

(2) The Common Council of the City of London shall appoint their first representative on the said special committee before or on 29th May 1964.

(3) The first meeting of the said special committee shall be held at the County Hall, S.E.1, at 3 p.m. on 5th June 1964.